Editor:
Re: Is this Burnaby’s loudest stretch of road? One resident thinks so, NOW, July 20
I just read the story (about) the street noise in the Maywood-Willingdon area of Burnaby.
My apartment overlooks Kingsway and I assure you that I sympathize with the people that are dealing with the noise in the Willingdon/Maywood area.
Once the spring and summer months arrive, the street below me turns into a virtual raceway.
I see motorcycles racing by at all hours of the day and night. In the evenings, (this stretch of) Kingsway is far worse than what the people in the Willingdon/Maywood experience, I can assure you. These people hang out at the Tim Hortons … men with their fancy, noisy little souped-up cars.
Every time they come and go, they race one another, revving up their loud cars, speeding up and down Kingsway, in both directions. It is a natural straight away that is perfect for racing. I swear these morons do it here because of that and the fact that the noise reverberates off the towers on both sides of Kingsway.
I have contacted the Burnaby RCMP on many occasions regarding the nonsense that carries on outside my apartment. Further, I would give them descriptions of the vehicles that had just been racing east and west on Kingsway. I even went down and got licence plates on occasions - the RCMP never do anything.
I finally gave up calling. This nonsense has to stop before someone is seriously injured or killed. I see motorcycles and cars travelling at excessive speeds all day long - late at night is the worst time though. I am talking speeds well in access of 80 to 90 km/h. It is so frustrating living here, I wish the Burnaby RCMP would take this matter more seriously. They are more than welcome to use my patio, which looks directly onto Kingsway or, as I call it, “the raceway” to monitor this never-ending problem.
Unfortunately, I feel that my only recourse is to move as no matter how many times I have called the Burnaby RCMP, nothing has, or will, change.
I have had enough of life in Burnaby.
Neal Maingot, Burnaby
